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spernit

spernit is a Latin form of sperno, meaning “scorn, despise, reject”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro M. Caelio 36: … eo loco paratos quo omnis iuventus natandi causa venit; hinc licet condiciones cotidie legas; cur huic qui te spernit molesta es?

Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.513: Spernit Echionides tamen hunc ex omnibus unus,

All forms of sperno (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.